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29th January 2014 London, UK
Digital at heart
Over 4,600 twitter followers, a blogging Ambassador, a gallery online telling UK-Holy See relations in pictures. These are part of the digital footprints of our small Embassy (five of us in total): the oldest UK diplomatic representation abroad, @UKinHolySee to name it in tune with the times. Digital media have become an essential part of […]
29th January 2014
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Towards a Conflict Free Africa
This year agriculture is the main theme of the 22nd Assembly of Heads of State and Government at the African Union (AU) – the AU Summit, which is taking place this week. But African leaders are also deliberating on the peace and security of the continent. Country situations at the top of the agenda are […]
29th January 2014
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Migration: UK and Bulgaria Are More Similar than You May Think
Although for me the biggest story of 2013 was the way civil society found its voice, the biggest story UK-Bulgaria story was the vexed issue of migration. We should differentiate between actions and words. The British government’s actions have been clear. We have honoured our legal commitment to lift labour restrictions on Bulgarian workers. In […]
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28th January 2014 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 20-26 January 2014
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28th January 2014
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Recién llegando a Guatemala!
Quiero dar la bienvenida a Guatemala a nuestro nuevo Jefe de Misión Alterno, el Sr. Andrew Tate y su maravillosa familia. Y para ello, lo he invitado a escribir un blog sobre sus primeras impresiones, tienes la palabra Andy. El 03 de enero llegue a La Aurora con mi familia para iniciar mi nuevo trabajo […]
27th January 2014
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Just arriving Guatemala!
I want to welcome our new Deputy Head of Mission, Mr Andrew Tate and his wonderful family to Guatemala! And to do so, I have invited him to write a blog on his first impressions, over to you Andy: On 3 January I arrived at La Aurora with my family to take up my new […]
27th January 2014
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Reshoring: Good news for Europe
Last week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron was in Davos for the World Economic Forum, where he discussed his strategy for making Britain the ‘Reshore Nation’. He also outlined what Europe can do to reap the benefits of reshoring. What is reshoring? It’s generally considered to be the process where a company has moved business […]
27th January 2014 Budapest, Hungary
Better Together
It’s been quite a start to 2014. No chance of easing my way back into work after the holidays. The year has got going at 100 miles an hour. I was wondering which part of the excitement to write about in my first blog of 2014. But I went to a celebration of Burns night […]
27th January 2014 Athens, Greece
Remembrance and Affirmation
On 27 January each year, the United Nations remembers the Holocaust that took the lives of six million Jewish people during World War II. This day is called the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. On this day in 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration and death camp […]
27th January 2014 Sana’a, Yemen
Robert Burns: the Yemeni?
Guest blog by the Embassy Lyricist This week the British Embassy (and millions of Scots worldwide) gathered to remember the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Britain and Yemen’s shared love of poetry led us to think, could the 18th century poet actually have hailed from Yemen? I’ll leave you to decide! How can a man born in […]